Amniotic+Fluid+Embolism

Abortion Deaths From Embolisms
These women are some of those who died from embolisms during or after their abortions. This list is not comprehensive; I just compiled it by doing a search of my own site for the word "embolism."

Sixteen-year-old Patty underwent a second-trimester abortion at the hands of either Edward Allred or Leslie Orleans at Allred's Avalon Hospital in Los Angeles in March of 1984.
 * @Patricia Chacon**

Edith Cote was 38 years old when she submitted to a safe and legal abortion in New York.
 * @Edith Cote**

Sheryl Cottone was 23 years old when she underwent a first trimester abortion in June of 1981.
 * @Sheryl Cottone**

Alerte Desanges had been informed that her fetus was deformed, so she went for an abortion at Choices Women's Medical Center in Queens in September of 1994.
 * @Alerte Desanges**

Christella Marie Forte, age 16, screamed, convulsed, and went into cardiac arrest 27 hours after instillation of saline for an abortion
 * Christella Forte**

Laura, part-owner of a bicycle repair shop and go-go dancer at a local bar, evidently attempted a self-induced abortion with an air compressor.
 * Laura France**

Marie had been admitted to Anderson Memorial Hospital in Anderson, SC, because of an intestinal obstruction some time in 1980.
 * @Marie Gibson**

19-year-old Christina Goesswein was almost 23 weeks pregnant when she went to Dr. Moshe Hachamovitch in Bronx, New York.
 * Christina Goesswein**

Life Dynamics identified 21-year-old Gaylene Golden on their "Blackmun Wall" as the woman who died after an abortion by Joe Bills Reynolds.
 * Gaylene Golden**

Norma Greene, age 34, went into cardio-respiratory arrest in a Winston-Salem hospital in March of 1981.
 * Norma Greene**

Angela Hall, a 27-year-old mother of five, called to arrange an abortion at Thomas Tucker's office in Alabama
 * @Angela Hall**

L'Echelle Head, age 21, died in October of 2000 after an abortion at Dayton Women's Health Services.
 * L'Echelle Head**

Denise Holmes, a 24-year-old Australian woman living in Texas, decided to undergo an abortion at Avalon Hospital in Los Angeles, California, on her way home for Christmas of 1970.
 * Denise Holmes**

Mary Ives was 28 when she had an abortion 19 weeks into her pregnancy.
 * Mary Ives**

Like the Jacqueline Smith case in the previous decade, the strange events surrounding the death of 19-year-old Barbara Lofrumento have become almost an urban legend.
 * Barbara Lofrumento**

Thirty-six-year-old Kathy McKnight underwent an abortion in September of 1993.
 * @Kathy McKnight**

Lynn was 23 weeks pregnant when she was injected with saline by Dr. Edward Rubin at Jewish Memorial Hospital.
 * Lynn McNair**

Dawn Mendoza underwent an abortion at the hands of Edward Rubin at Women's Medical Pavilion in Dobbs Ferry, New York, in June of 1988.
 * Dawn Mendoza**

Loretta Morton was 16 years old when she underwent a legal abortion in December of 1983.
 * @Loretta Morton**

DaNette Adelle Pergusson, a 19-year-old medical assistant, submitted to an abortion on in February of 1992 at the hands of Robert Tarnis of Phoenix, Arizona.
 * @DaNette Pergusson**

In January of 1980, Vanessa Preston, the 22-year-old wife of a local minister, went with her husband and small son to Fairmount Clinic in Dallas.
 * @Vanessa Preston**

Amy was 35 years old when she had a legal abortion on Christmas Eve of 1970. She was 14 weeks pregnant.
 * "Amy" Roe**

Cindy, age 25, had a suction abortion at 9 weeks.
 * "Cindy" Roe**

Danielle, age 18, had traveled from Massachusetts to New York for a safe and legal abortion.
 * "Danielle" Roe**

This 18-year-old died in 1973 after a prostaglandin abortion.
 * "Donna" Roe**

Ellen went into cardiac arrest before expelling the fetus during a saline abortion in 1974.
 * "Ellen" Roe**

Erica was 20 years old and 22 weeks pregnant when she sought an abortion in 1974.
 * "Erica" Roe**

This 35-year-old woman was 20 weeks pregnant when she underwent a saline abortion in 1974.
 * "Malorie" Roe**

This 16-year-old died after a saline abortion in 1972.
 * "Nancy" Roe**

Sharonda had an abortion done in a doctor's office in Washington, DC on October 11, 1981.
 * Sharonda Rowe**

Rhonda underwent an abortion in May of 1982. She suddenly died of an abortion-related pulmonary embolism on May 23.
 * Rhonda Ruggiero**

In December of 1987, 31-year-old Sheila Watley had an abortion at Concerned Women's Center in Houston, Texas.
 * Sheila Watley**

Thirty-year-old Sandra Williams was 11 weeks pregnant when she underwent an abortion in December of 1984.
 * Sandra Williams**